{"id":21509,"date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21509"},"modified":"2022-09-09T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:00:15","slug":"chapter-one-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/06\/04\/chapter-one-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a very tiring day and I don\u2019t know if I have the strength to deal with one of these, but here I am. Mysterio. 2nd worst classic villain in my opinion. A gag that only works once, maybe twice. I bet this is bad. The great Christie Scheele tags in to color this month, and JJJ is meeting Mysterio on page one, which means we\u2019re starting on page 9 of ASM 13<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Byrne\u2019s going for the weirder, creeper Mysterio of that first appearance, and I certainly approve of that. Certainly feels like a character that kind of only worked when Ditko drew him. Back at the scene of last issue\u2019s cliffhanger, a woman with short blonde hair at the police cordon tells a \u201cchief\u201d on the phone that Jameson was wrong again, and Electro isn\u2019t Spider-Man. Is this meant to be a young Kate Cushing? Who knows, she is not named and doesn\u2019t appear again. What was that? Elsewhere, Johnny gets free of Spider-Man\u2019s web, since we\u2019re continuing both ASM 9<\/a> and ST Annual 2<\/a> after having started ASM 13, already in progress. Sheesh.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The prisoners choose this moment to start attacking Spider-Man again, allowing Electro to just\u2026 walk away, no powers or anything, but then the Torch shows up to put a wall of flame between Spidey and the cons. Torch says Spidey can go get Electro and he\u2019ll take care of the cons. This gets us to the actual end of the Electro\/Spidey fight from ASM 9, complete with a worse version of Stan\u2019s unmasking gag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A joke really is all in the telling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter & Betty have literally not spoken in this comic. Betty\u2019s not been NAMED in this comic. And now they\u2019re ready to date? Could there be more damning of just how wrongheaded and focused on the wrong things this series is? Well, suddenly it\u2019s 2 days later, and the beginning of ASM 13 has happened after the middle, with Spider-Man caught on camera robbing a place, JJJ delighted, a Robbie who shouldn\u2019t even be here mad about it, and Peter instantly assuming he really did that robbery even tho he doesn\u2019t remember it. Again, a chance to try to improve a dumb plot point, and no attempt is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least May gets to talk for a change. So, in Ditko\u2019s version, Mysterio faked Spider-Man\u2019s robbery then showed up at JJJ\u2019s with his note to print in the Bugle. In this, he gives JJJ the note first, telling him not to open it for 2 days, THEN fakes the robbery, and then has JJJ find out he knew the robbery would happen in advance. And JJJ isn\u2019t suspicious at all! This is SO MUCH WORSE! I guess this is all so Robbie can point out how wrong JJJ is, to establish the relationship they shouldn\u2019t have yet. So bad! Spider-Man goes to the bridge, meets Mysty, the battle in the smoke cloud, more or less the original. Except instead of realizing he has to escape that cloud to survive and leaping off the bridge, Spider-Man is utterly bamboozled and punched off the bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JJJ introduces Peter to Mysterio, then we skip the 2nd fight scene in ASM 13 and get right to the third, with Spidey following the tracer he put on Mysterio to a movie studio. Yeah, he\u2019s got tracers now, and he doesn\u2019t need a receiver to follow them. Where\u2019d the tracers come from? I guess it doesn\u2019t matter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier, Peter mentioned it\u2019s been almost a year since he got bit by the spider. Here, it\u2019s been \u201cmonths\u201d since issue 2. And yet, every issue combos right into the next one. This whole series to date seems more like it happened in one very busy week. Because of the idiotic decision to cut every issue in half, it doesn\u2019t feel like time is passing at all! Man I can\u2019t wait to be done with this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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